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A Niche Reputation: Inside Cal Poly’s Champion Logging Team

Fatigued after days of competition, animal science senior Helen Dubee stood anxiously with her teammates as the awards were announced at this year’s Sierra-Cascade logging conference.

“We were all so tired because it had been three days of just non-stop working and doing all the events,” she said. “When they told us we won, we kind of all freaked out like ‘oh my god, it actually worked.’”

When the sawdust settled, the Cal Poly logging team brought home their first championship title since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. The team now has its sights set on the Association of Western Forestry Clubs (AWFC) national conference in Montana this April.